WARNING: Drug use.
We’re (re)starting summer right with Jason Little’s Motel Art Improvement Service.
I can’t tell you how much of a gem this comic is because, well, it’s super precious. The slice-of-life story is believable with unexpected and hilarious twists, but it’s the way the panels are laid out that really illustrates the tension (or lack of tension on some pages). Much appreciated.
The blurb:
From Jason Little, author of the Ignatz Award-winning Shutterbug Follies, comes another exciting “bubblegum noir” graphic novel, originally serialized in the acclaimed webcomic Bee!
Eighteen–year–old Bee has finally saved up enough to embark on her long–planned cross–country bicycle trip. However, she doesn’t make it very far before disaster leaves her stranded at a motel. Her hormones surge when she meets a misunderstood young artist on a mission to “upgrade” the banal “artwork” that hangs on the walls of every motel room. Taking a job there as a housekeeper, Bee snoops around in the motel’s dirty laundry and finds herself entangled in a scary drug deal gone dangerously wrong.
Featuring gorgeous artwork balancing grit with cuteness, Motel Art Improvement Service explores crime, young love, and the purpose of art, in a story that’s equal parts thrilling, funny, and sexy!
Original title: Motel Art Improvement Service
Writer, artist, colorist, letterer: Jason Little
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics (English/2010)
WARNING: Drug use.
Dollsexposed showcases queer erotica, kink, fetish, and activism through twelve-inch doll photography. Their adventures in the doll world began in 2011 before establishing a home on dollsexposed.com eleven years later.
Dollsexposed's works have been displayed at Seattle Erotic Art Festival and Los Angeles Leather Getaway.